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URL shortener for Stack Overflow profiles

Home Page: http://stack.im

CSS 16.38% HTML 16.79% Clojure 66.33% Procfile 0.50%

stackim's Introduction

stack.im is a URL shortener for Stack Overflow profiles. It lets you turn this:

stackoverflow.com/users/00000/me

into this:

stack.im/me

You're looking at the source code for the app that powers this service.

That's it?

Yep.

That's stupid. Why not just use bit.ly?

You could, but I think it's cool to have a Stack Overflow-specific shortener. stack.im/me just looks cooler than http://bit.ly/12cjLbv.

How do I create a URL?

We're all programmers here, so just use curl:

$ curl -X PUT -d "stackid=00000" http://stack.im/me

(That is, make a PUT request to the shortened URL you desire with your Stack Overflow user ID as a parameter.)

Are you Jeff Atwood or Joel Spolsky in disguise?

No, nor is stack.im affiliated in any way with Stack Overflow, its founders, or its creators. I just made it for fun (and because I wanted a short URL for my Stack Overflow to put on my résumé, bumper stickers, tattoos, and the inside of my underwear).

stackim's People

Contributors

Stargazers

Watchers

Forkers

muzakparov nilanjanchakraborty87 montypaws grassit sudhansu23 efallancy

stackim's Issues

Prevent race condition when creating shortened URLs

Right now, the application checks to see if a potential tag exists. If it does, it is rejected (with a 409 error); if not, it is created. This is done in two steps, so there is the potential that a tag could not exist, but would be created in another request before the current request had a chance to create it -- which means the current request would create another tag of the same name. Obviously this is bad.

One way to avoid this problem is to create a unique index on the name field, but that complicates sharding. stack.im is not sharded now (and most likely never will be), but I'd still like to follow best practices in its design. I'll keep poking around for a solution to this issue.

Track shortened URL clicks

Shortened URLs should have an analytics.views page that counts how often the URL was hit. (Or maybe this should be stored in a separate collection?)

stack.im Application Error

archer@capitan ~ $ curl -XPUT -d "stackid=198087" http://stack.im/me
<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	  <head>
		<meta charset="utf-8">
		<title>Application Error</title>
		<style media="screen">
		  html,body,iframe {
			margin: 0;
			padding: 0;
		  }
		  html,body {
			height: 100%;
			overflow: hidden;
		  }
		  iframe {
			width: 100%;
			height: 100%;
			border: 0;
		  }
		</style>
	  </head>
	  <body>
		<iframe src="//www.herokucdn.com/error-pages/application-error.html"></iframe>
	  </body>
	</html

Wrong UID led to preferred link permanently taken?

Is there a way to edit the UID. I messed mine up and prematurely pressed enter.

Or possibly have a way to revoke the shortened version of the link?

Best,
B

Track tag creation date

Shortened URLs should have a created_at date to note when they were created.

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